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I don't think ;ruin' is quite the right word Sammy When Mrs T enetred thr H's of P, she was pretty much an average tyope. hubby had a business that was starting to earn a few quid, but nowt special. When she left parliament, Mrs T herself, not him, not the pair of them - just her - was a multi millionaire. And that was 25-30 years ago now a million quid was worth a bit more than it is now. No. Even if politicians did get a lump sum to pay back, and there's precious little evidence of that is there except for a few expenses scapegoats repaying buttons, most of em'd be able to afford it. Dennis Skinner types maybe not. But every bugger else? Definitely.BobG
JonI've said till I'm tired of saying it that I agree with the Corbyn/McDonnell economic policy, which Smith also agrees with. There's nothing historically far-left about that. It's solid, 1950s Keynesian stuff; the sort of thing that every PM signed up to between 1945 and IMF/1976 (and, incidentally, Brown and Balls too - despite the Corbyn Cult castigating them as Red Tories, they were on the same page as far as the macro-economics goes).
PS. Guess who's on child-sitting duties and unable to get to Accrington...
RobAye, and an over-reaction from me. I'm just sick of what should be a serious debate about the future of this party, being hi-jacked by people who are not prepared to look seriously at the issues.